LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:9 September 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

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Emergence of Syllabic Patterns in Babbling

Ms. Reeny Roy and Dr. N. Sreedevi

Abstract

Acquisition of speech sounds during child’s development refers to the gradual mastery of speech sounds within a given language. During the initial stages of the infant’s life, the vocalizations produced are highly varied from the well formed adult speech. The study aims to investigate the appearances of speech patterns during early vocalizations at the pre linguistic period. The participants included in the study comprise of 8 infants, two boys and two girls each in the age range 4-6months and 10-12months. The participants were selected from native Malayalam speaking families. An informed consent was obtained from parents/ caregivers for the participation of the children. The researcher carried out the audio recording of the babbling utterances.

Analyses of the sample were carried out using IPA transcriptions. The data obtained was classified as singleton vowels and consonants, bisyllabic and multisyllabic utterances containing strings of vowels, variegated and reduplicated multisyllabic utterances. The numbers of utterances were higher and varied in the 10-12 month age group compared to 4-6 month age group. Statistical significance was not attained because of the large variations among the individual participants.

Keywords: Babbling, Syllable shapes, ambient language

Introduction

The study of human infant vocal behaviour has grown substantially in recent years and much is now known about the acquisition of speech and language in the early years of life. According to this theoretical notion, babbling is a random series of vocalizations in which many different sounds are produced with no apparent order or consistency. On the emergence of syllable shapes on early vocal utterances, infants begin to utter longer patterns of speech sounds as they grow. Reduplication of CV syllables occurs initially during the babbling stages. At the later stages of babbling, around 10-12 months, combination of speech sound patterns become elaborate and variegated.

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Ms. Reeny Roy
Junior Research Fellow
All India Institute of Speech and Hearing
Mysore 570 006
Karnataka
India
luckyreeny7@gmail.com

Dr. N. Sreedevi
Reader
Department of Speech Language Sciences
All India Institute of Speech and Hearing
Mysore 570 006
Karnataka
India
srij_01@yahoo.co.in
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